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Tom Patey's Piton Hammer

Accession Number

583.2008.1

Object Name

Tom Patey's Piton Hammer

Created

01/12/2008

Creator

Hermione Cooper

Accession Date

01/12/2008

Brief Description

'Salewa' piton hammer. Metal shaft with rubber covering. Metal ring attached to bottom of shaft with red leash attached. Square hammer head, serrated pick, and hole in centre.

Materials

metal, rubber

Dimensions

Shaft 23(l) x 9(cir)cms. Head 10(l) cms. Hammer head 2.5(w)cms.

Number Of Objects

1

Inscription Description

On one side "CMI" On other side "SALEWA OB6M MADE IN WEST GERMANY"

Colour

silver, blue

Maker

Salewa

Object Production Place

West Germany

Provenance

Belonged to Tom Patey, one of the great characters of the Scottish climbing scene who was killed in an abseiling accident whilst descending from a sea stack called The Maiden, in Loch Eriboll, Sutherland on May 25th 1970. He had this piton hammer with him when he died. Paul Nunn was one of several other climbers there on that fateful day and somehow inherited the piton hammer. In April 1994, Paul and Mick Tighe were re-creating the climb of another sea-stack called The Old Man of Stoer, which had first been climbed by Patey, for a TV series called 'The Edge'. It was Mick's birthday and Paul gave the piton hammer to Mick as a present. The hammer had actually been given to Tom by Brian Robertson who had also been on the first ascent of Stoer. Good reading in Tom Patey's book 'One Man's Mountains' and Paul's 'At The Sharp End'. 'The Edge' is also available on DVD.

Acquisition Method

Given to Mick Tighe by Paul Nunn

Acquisition Date

01/12/2008

Condition Check Date

28/04/2009

Rules

Spectrum : UK Museum documentation standard, V.3.1 2007

Modified

28/04/2009

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